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About the role
What you will be expected to do:
- Conduct offensive security assessments of hardware, firmware, embedded operating systems, and payment stacks on Sun King mobile devices.
- Reverse engineer firmware and perform static and dynamic reviews to uncover security weaknesses.
- Detect and exploit vulnerabilities in embedded systems, bootloaders, MDMs, Android kernel components, secure boot implementations, and cryptographic mechanisms.
- Develop and execute proof-of-concept attacks to demonstrate exploitability and business impact.
- Work with product, hardware, and software engineering teams to define secure development practices and strengthen product resilience.
- Contribute to threat modeling and architecture reviews for new products and features.
- Keep current with emerging vulnerabilities, tools, and offensive research relevant to smartphone financing ecosystems.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- Solid knowledge of Android security, Mobile Device Management, IoT device architectures, and hardware security testing.
- Strong familiarity with hardware exploitation techniques (e.g., JTAG/SWD/UART debugging, side-channel techniques, fault injection).
- Hands-on experience with Flash 64, Pandora, Easy JTag, Chimera, CM2, and similar tools.
- Proficiency in reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, and debugging tools like JTAGulator, OpenOCD, or Bus Pirate.
- Experience reviewing and modifying firmware images (binwalk, Firmadyne, QEMU).
- Familiarity with secure boot, TPM/TEE, flash encryption, and other embedded security technologies.
- Programming and scripting capability in Python, C/C++, Bash, or similar languages.
- Knowledge of common vulnerability classes (e.g., memory corruption, design flaws, insecure update mechanisms).
- Exposure to payment/fintech device security and secure device provisioning environments.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
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